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The Denver Post is hosting debates in three of the biggest political races in Colorado this year: for Colorado governor, the 6th Congressional District and U.S. Senate.

Tickets are available from EventBrite. Note that we are asking participants to avoid overt campaigning inside the debate hall and during the debates themselves.

Most of the candidates are in the fight of their political lives. All of the races are huge-money affairs. Against that backdrop, The Post’s hour-long debates intend to offer voters a much-needed opportunity to see the contestants answer tough questions by professional journalists in an unscripted setting.

The debates will be viewable either live and in person or via The Post’s online offerings. And for those who want to circle back and watch later, our online editions will offer that option as well.

Here’s the line-up:

First up, CD6: Congressman Mike Coffman and former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff begin the series Sept. 23.

The (D)enver Post is hosting the debates? Are they moderating the debates as well? If so, we can expect them to be as fair and unbiased as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Benjamin Crump, and the rest of Lynch Mobsters in Ferguson, MO

RobertChase

The mobsters run Denver, its police department, and the pathetically bad joke that passes for its newspaper.

RobertChase

Possibly the only people stupider than those you mischaracterize as asking “tough questions by professional journalists” are the idiots who are to answer them; their interlocutors may or may not be marginally more qualified to pose the questions than the candidates are to answer them. Beauprez does not speak or reason on his feet well, so he is likely to overmatch his inarticulate opponent, but other than that race, due to your failure to do any journalism up to this point, there is little interest in the other races — from voters who live here.

Slim

If BullS*** was music this debate would sound like a brass band!!

Ben Cook

Colorado Democrats vs Republicans debate: “I love illegal aliens more than you…no you don’t, I love them more than you, no sir I Iove them more than you, no way, I love and hug them more than you do, I love them so much more than you I want to make them automatic citizens of the United States of America… Well so do I! ” …….

Yes, we will be streaming them — it says so above, though not in those words. We will be promoting them heavily, I’m sure, so you if you follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you should see more about them as each debate night approaches. I suspect we will send notifications via our iOS and Android apps, as well, when the streams are about to begin, and/or email alerts (sign up for Politics Breaking News Alerts at http://www.denverpost.com/newsletters). Thanks!

Dear Mr. Plunkett, I am the Green Party candidate for Governor of Colorado.

RobertChase

The Denver Post suppresses much local news, and stifles public debate by deliberately avoiding mentioning any number of subjects in which it does not want the public involved. With regard to political parties other than the Collaborationist (Democratic) and Fascist (Republican) and candidates for office unaffiliated with them, the DP wants the electorate to know very little more than that they exist. This perversion of journalism engages with State politics in only the most superficial way, and its supposed journalists express frank bias in favor of the Collaborationist Party and Gov. Hack.

It is the height of hypocrisy for a regime of such myopic self-interest and dereliction now to pretend to sponsor public debate, when it does so much to keep voters ignorant every day, especially when its exclusion of libertarian, Libertarian, and Green Party candidates from the forum (for we are unlikely to see true debate) means that the 37% of registered voters in Colorado not affiliated with either of the two parties will be unrepresented. Mr. Plunkett’s newspaper has left 100% of Denver and Colorado almost entirely ignorant of the political aspirations and thought of those outside the two criminal parties, and Plunkett himself may even know how political polls are conducted, so his 10% threshold is more representative of the thralldom of information in which the Post holds Colorado than a standard for the political viability of independents.

A sign on the doors of the auditorium the Post will pack to overflowing with civic-minded, information-deprived voters should warn: “No thinking allowed”, because this is likely to be a regurgitation of the political rhetoric from the two parties with which they and their corporate supporters are already blanketing the media rather than any meaningful debate.

Marcus Giavanni

I’m with you Mr. Hempy…this is why I chose to run as a write in candidate. I did the signatures in the Denver Mayoral race and I had to file a complaint: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/03/marcus_giavanni_complaint_denver_mayor_ballot.php. if you look closely at the players in this law suit you will see that it is clear…I would not have been able to find an attorney to sue the state. So I took the guarantee..and I am on the ballot 11.4.2014. Where I knew that if I got signatures they would have been deemed invalid. I never do what other do..I always create my own path.

To the Denver Post..you want to know why your sales are not as good as they should be. I watch at King Supers your peeps trying to sell me and others your subscriptions. You need to record the responses of most of the language I have heard to describe the Post is bad… wow!!!

In fact we canceled our subscription in 2011 after my run for office. I can prove it!!!

You did this to yourselves when you sided with the lobby instead of the citizens of Colorado.

My family growing up, on Sundays we looked forward to sitting on my moms and dads big California King bed; dividing up the news paper (kids got the comics) and my dad made us all talk about current events….

Let me give you a 101 on how important a news paper is to it’s economical prosperity for both your paper and our state.

My father had a masters degree in engineering and he taught part time at a community college in Arizona. (full time engineer at Honeywell Bull, boy he had handcuffed suit cases and would bring home terminals that would hook up to our land line).

In 1977 my adopted father taught me to read a paper based on economics.

My dad knew I was not going to college, but did not understand why. (I had Dyslexia and ADD 1965 who knew?).

So my father told me I would have to learn construction or work at a restaurant my entire life or open a business. (He was so confused).

Nevertheless, he always started with the food coupons that came in the papers on Sunday. He knew when prices where going to go up and always bought on the down side or sale side of most of his purchases. (feeding nine people, seven of which were all adopted).

To help me figure out the job side of things he would turn to want ads.

My dad showed me that by looking at the people who are hiring one can determine the current economics of all growth of companies and our state.

To keep this short I will use construction. No matter what trade you were in the want ads could tell a painting contractor what is coming down the pike for new work. When contractors looking for framers would tell the drywall company there is new work. So the drywall companies would seek to bid on this up and coming work. Then the painter would see that the Drywall company is hiring, so they would bid on this new work. Thus allowing painting contractors to hire new painters. This also holds true for every single trade or company that is involved in the construction industry.As well as other industries that makes a state move forward.

My dad also taught me, what was on the first few pages would determine the political stance or opinions of the newspaper and the further back the stories are buried in the news paper; is where you will find the other side of the story.

Now..newspapers are seeing drops in subscriptions..lack of advertising and soon like CNN will have to lay people off just to make ends meet. When all they had to do???

Last but not least:

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:57.

You want to increase your sales and readership and advertising dollars. Open your doors to all stories, all people and all candidates.

For it may be you Mr. Plunkett getting the next pink slip or one of your co-workers. Just like they are getting at CNN..hey but Fox is hiring???

I miss my news paper…but I can’t support a one sided news paper…looking to support their own agenda. Sooner or later a new company will come and replace the old thinking relict…and bring the printed paper!

As much as I am a leading up and coming authority, I’d much rather sit in my bed flipping through the news paper, strung all over the floor and bed. Than flipping pages on the internet. it’s just not as fun!!!

It’s time to get back into the Black of things..the red is going to put you paper in turmoil in the future.

Hell…what do I know..I’m Dyslexic with ADD and no high school diploma.

Who wants to listen to me, rather lets throw rocks at this dumb **S!!!

Only in America…and now Colorado!!!

Marcus Giavanni

It appears the Denver Post has already narrowed the field to the established candidates. When clearly there are other candidates Coloradans can look at. This will sum up the Gubernatorial Candidates. Incumbent Governor John Hickenlooper has failed in thre important issues. Guns, Death Penalty, State Corruption but he sure knows how to drink some beer. Candidate Bob Beauprez…my analytics tells me that Bob Beauprez is a has been, everything this man is campaign on is what he did in the past..and you will not find one search of what he has done in the last 5 years as a businessman. How can Bob Beauprez move Colorado Forward on empty campaign promises this is a fact you all better hear and go look it up yourselves. Maybe a song and dance is good enough for the voters of Colorado…the people I talk to, they can’t wait to vote both the D and the R from our state political office of Governor. And establish our home rule city and county of Denver back to Unaffiliated as per the law.

The power is to remain with the people… not party!

Mayor Hancock…you were wrong saying in both presidential elections…”Denver is behind you Obama” Denver can only back it’s own unaffiliated citizens!!!

Shame on you Mayor of Denver!!!

Wake up Voters!!!

RobertChase

Put cannabis at the head of the list of issues on which Hack has failed (although few realize it because of the total blackout of relevant coverage by the Post). The joke is on us: we strongly approved of legalizing cannabis — the Governor and our anti-representatives in the General Assembly then made it five kinds of felony (see SB13-250 and C.R.S. 18-18-406), then voters strongly approved of the ruinous tax with which Gov. Hack and his prohibitionist friends are using to kill the regulated market, but the final fillip is that none of the taxes from retail cannabis go for schools, education in general, or anything else Colorado needs or even wants; it is segregated in the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund which can only be appropriated to mitigate imagined harms the prohibitionists tell Hack are being caused by cannabis. The first three possible recipients named in the bill (SB14-215) establishing the Fund are police, prosecutors, and the Executive Branch.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.